¡Martes por la tarde, enlaces mexicanos!

by | Aug 9, 2022 | Daily Links | 256 comments

I’m sorry.  This is my fault.  So there is an Ocotillo cactus in my front yard that hasn’t been looking too hot in the past year or so.  Last summer I noticed a Palo Verde tree was beginning to take root under the cactus.  I figured it would push the cactus out and I can just drag it off next time bulk trash comes around.  When that didn’t happen, I took an axe and began hacking off the Palo Verde limbs since it became overgrown.  Hacked it right off to the ground level.  We had about three weeks of monsoon here in Phoenix, and I have to apologize to the world.

When I went to trim this abomination last weekend, I discovered I inadvertently created a Palo Verde/Ocotillo hybrid.  This might take over the desert.  I should’ve killed it with fire when I had the chance, but fire is a touchy subject in this part of the country.  I am sorry.

Now for the links!

Team Brandon officially ends the remain in Mexico policy.  Meanwhile in San Diego, they fell for Don Brett’s diversion.

Elsewhere in Mexico, they have coal miners trapped in a mine.

Bolsonaro continues to prove the jouros correct by being a fascist dictator.

Excellent news for Mr. Lizard, whom we still remember by leaving a hot rock in the corner.

More bad luck for Cuba.

 

A jaunty tune.  Okay, it’s not so jaunty, but still have a great Tuesday!

 

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256 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    Sounds like a prickly situation.

    • Animal

      Well, cactus makes perfect.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Stick around, he’ll be here all week.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Thorny animal puns draw out the Swiss on any arid day.

      • Rat on a train

        You make a point.

      • The Other Kevin

        Sorry Swiss, these puns are too succulent to pass up.

      • Animal

        Now you’re just needling him.

      • Gender Traitor

        Huh. No narrowed gaze yet. Swissy must not be spine on us.

      • juris imprudent

        Agave it all I could.

      • SDF-7

        Very nice.

        Must seem like Christmas in August to Swiss, or at least to Old Man With Cactus.

    • SDF-7

      You’re just trying to needle Swiss.

      • Zwak. And once again, the mall is his Waterloo

        Swiss is right, you all need to pear back on the puns.

        He’s the de Cider.

      • Animal

        Cider makes me pith.

  2. Rat on a train

    Poor Mexico no longer gets the best and brightest.

  3. Rebel Scum

    This is my fault.

    Indeed. I blame you for everything bad.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I probably deserve it

  4. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Looks like Reuters doesn’t like VPNs. Oh well…

  5. Rat on a train

    Lightning strike caused the fire? Obviously caused by climate change requiring reparations from the US.

    • DEG

      Dammit.

  6. Rebel Scum

    Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday denied that he has any intention of carrying out a coup if he loses October’s election, adding that he rejects a constitutional measure seen as an effort to protect him from crime accusations.

    That’s just what someone who is planning a coup would say.

  7. Rat on a train

    An island in the Galápagos reintroduced iguanas after nearly 200 years of extinction
    From the photo it looks like racing iguanas.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Mmmmm… tree chicken.

  8. Rebel Scum

    Wtchmer got the vid.

    Just a quick check-in! I’m a little congested, but still working hard for Michigan from home. I’m so grateful that being vaccinated and boosted has kept my symptoms mild. Thank you for all the well wishes!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      These new shibboleths suck.

    • Rat on a train

      Regardless of how bad it is, it would have been worse without the jab. Even if you die, the jab makes dying more pleasant.

    • Pat

      If only she’d been carrying my rock that keeps COVID away.

      • blighted_non_millenial

        Those work for tigers too, right?

      • Rat on a train

        Different rocks for different threats.

      • Lackadaisical

        😂

        When the tiger repelling rock works better than your ‘vaccine.’ Ouch.

    • SDF-7

      Did the FBI plan her infection too?

    • JasonAZ

      She makes me ashamed to be from Michigan. Fingers crossed the GOP candidate kicks her ass. If they can keep any election fortification non-sense from happening again, Michigan should continue it’s rightward trend. White union guys are fleeing the Dems significantly in Michigan. At least, that’s the vibe I get while I’m there visiting friends and family.

      • The Last American Hero

        That’s pure fantasyland. Heil Vitmer is going to hand that lightweight her ass in November. Because pro choice suburban mom wants her get out of jail free card and because the gop is a mess in Michigan.

        They had a setup for a cakewalk for gov and ag and have boned the nomination process. Big time.

      • JasonAZ

        I honestly don’t know much about the candidates there, but I know people there. (Born in Michigan, but been in AZ a long time. I’ll be there in 2 weeks!)

        However, there are not as many pro choice suburban moms as you think. There are many pro life suburban Catholics and other ethnic groups that are more conservative socially, similar to Latinos. This is why Whitmer was trying to get the courts to fix the abortion issue. She knows the state legislature doesn’t want to handle it because it’ll hurt them politically.

        Michigan used to be a much bluer state. Been slowly creeping purple/red. Part of that is the exodus of white union men from the Dem party. 20-30 years ago, these guys were solid Ds. Most hate the establishment Republicans; the Romney types. But Trumpism is attractive to them, especially as the Dems shit all over whites. Heck, I know a good number of black union guys that are Rs now in MI.

      • Zwak. And once again, the mall is his Waterloo

        My in-laws were both from the D, and solid blue.

      • JasonAZ

        They were or are from the D and solid blue? Trying to track what you’re saying. 🙂

        Sadly, my in-laws are hard Dems. It’s amazing hearing them complain that Trump is a racist, then turn around and talk about how blacks are too stupid to have ID to vote. Or, how poor people are too stupid to make their own decisions, so they need enlightened Dems to save them.

      • The Last American Hero

        Team Stupid pissed away their shot when the police chief failed to get on the ballot. Now the soccer moms see and embattled sister just trying o protect their right to choose. Whitney by 8 points.

        Talk show hosts have hours worth of damaging audio that can be flung at them. Wait until Hollywood gets the tapes and makes some very damaging commercials. Also, Whitmer has literally 10x the cash w/o the dnc money.

  9. Count Potato

    “The mine in Sabinas, Coahuila about 70 miles southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas”

    That would be a long ass drug tunnel.

    • The Other Kevin

      Drugs, Ass, Mexicans. +1 Comment Trifecta!

  10. Ownbestenemy

    I’m so grateful that being vaccinated and boosted the vaccine created for the Alpha strain that was barely effective through Delta and is evaded by BA.5 has kept my symptoms mild and that BA.5 is no more than a common cold for the majority who contract it.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I’ve had what I suppose is probably that variant for the last ten days. It’s been fairly rough but the common cold, albeit a bad one, is a good descriptor along with a low grade fever stacked on top of it. Likely she would have been fine anyway.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Right and people forget that there were bad colds in the olden times of 2019BC. Viruses hit people differently, always have, always will.

      • grrizzly

        The covid that I had in late May in England felt almost exactly the same as the cold I had in Spain in January 2018. I just didn’t have a thermometer with me back in 2018 to measure the temperature. Even the pattern was the same: catching it after a few days on another continent.

    • Mustang

      I still haven’t had it as near as I can tell. I’m not convinced it’s real. All of you claiming to have had it could be Feds or bots for all I know.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        First time I’ve had it, I was beginning to wonder if I had some kind of natural immunity or something. Seems to come down to luck of the draw though and it sucks but I’ve had worse. You could’ve also been sick but asymptomatic.

      • R.J.

        Or space aliens.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        “Greetings, fellow FedBots!”

    • Mojeaux

      I had a moderate cold back in June. No fever. Tested positive for the WuFlu, but whatevs.

  11. R C Dean

    I discovered I inadvertently created a Palo Verde/Ocotillo hybrid

    Two thoughts:

    (1) Aw, HELL no.

    (2) Profit!

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I said I was sorry!

  12. Rebel Scum

    Fuck. Off.

    The ACLU and Human Rights Watch want the United Nations to demand that President Joe Biden “take immediate, tangible measures,” including reparations, to “dismantle structural racism” in the United States.

    The groups are recommending that the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which will meet later this month, order the United States to “provide effective remedies, including reparations for racial discrimination, including ongoing structural discrimination that flows from the legacies of slavery.”

    • Pat

      Perhaps we could start some sort of federal transfer payment program that doles out money disproportionately to black people, contingent on their not having an intact family unit. I can’t see any possible downsides.

      • Tonio

        To quote Beth Dutton, I always remember your avatar as having been bigger. Did it auto-resize? Have you tried uploading it again?

      • Pat

        Looks the same to me, but it might be locally cached or something. I’ll try re-uploading it. I did have to re-upload it as well as adjust some other settings when I joined the forum a couple days ago, as the login info was tied to a much older password and my previous email account, so I may have screwed up something while I was in there.

      • Tonio

        For me (Win/FireFox) the actual image is 1/4 the size of everyone else’s avatar. The small image seems to occupy the upper-left corner of a normal avatar space (ie, it’s left-aligned with other comments at the same indent, but there’s a much larger space between the right edge of the image and the comment text than everyone else’s). I know some people had avatar problems during the various upgrades and migrations.

      • slumbrew

        I see the same on Brave (Mac) – I just re-uploaded mine to see if that changes. I haven’t otherwise touched it in forever.

      • slumbrew

        Uploaded a new one, size is correct.

      • Pat

        I cropped a new version from the original and reuploaded. Did it work?

      • slumbrew

        aye-yup

      • Pat

        Bueno

      • MikeS

        JasonAZ and Slumbrew also appear to be suffering from shrinkage.

      • slumbrew

        I was in the pool! I WAS IN THE POOL!

      • Tonio

        Good call. Thanks, MikeS.

      • JasonAZ

        Huh, I appear fine from my browser.

      • rhywun

        Yours has grown in the last couple hours.

        Lots of wonkiness in recent days.

      • JasonAZ

        Can you see my mustache? That’s all that matters.

      • rhywun

        I can. Is that you?

        I can never tell if it’s a Glib or an actor.

      • JasonAZ

        Haha, actor/athlete. It’s the old spice commercial guy.

    • SDF-7

      The UN? Demand?

      To quote what’s probably my favorite movie:

      “You sir. are in a position to demand…. nothing. I on the other hand, am in a position to grant… nothing.”

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Now say “nuclear wessels.”

      • SDF-7

        “I think they’re across the bay… in Alameda!”

        “That’s what I said… Alameda… but where’s Alameda?!?”

        (Yeah, yeah… skipping to a different film, but that’s always what I think of with “nuuuuclear… wesssels”)

      • Rat on a train

        Coooooonstitution!

    • Gustave Lytton

      Members:
      Qatar, Algeria, Poland, Republic of Korea, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Senegal, Turkey, China, USA, Mauritania, Germany, Jamaica, Greece, Togo, South Africa, Peru, Mauritius

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The Biden administration probably requested the vote.

      • Rat on a train

        The UN orders. It’s not binding but the ACLU sues to enforce. The government then implements through a consent decree to bypass the legislature.

      • Tonio

        Scorched earth policy. They are going to fuck things up as much as possible before the mid-terms, knowing that the Republicans have a well-established record of winning big, then doing nothing. Plus, they will still need Biden’s signature on anything they pass. We are so fucked.

      • Sensei

        This is the likely scenario.

        +1 McCain.

    • The Other Kevin

      Maybe they should demand the UN do something about actual slavery.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Eh, most of that crowd would love to see us self-immolate, including our own ambassador.

      • Rat on a train

        Pushing reparations based on race would definitely increase conflict.

      • Tonio

        That’s racist, and Islamophobic. And don’t even think about mentioning the treatment of homos in Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc.

      • grrizzly

        Fact check: Fiction!

      • Grosspatzer

        But really GREAT fiction!

    • Rat on a train

      order the United States
      I order the UN to get out of the US.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Since Democrats owned slaves, I support them paying reparations.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      “…*order* the United States…” ?

      Huh. And here I was, thinking that there exists no international legal authority greater than those of our national governments worldwide. Silly me.

  13. R.J.

    Florida should just bus iguanas to Galapagos. Problem solved.

  14. DEG

    Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday denied that he has any intention of carrying out a coup if he loses October’s election, adding that he rejects a constitutional measure seen as an effort to protect him from crime accusations.

    That’s just what an insurrectionist would say.

    At least one person has died and 125 are injured, with another 14 reported missing ever since lighting struck one of the facility’s eight tanks on Friday night. A second tank caught fire on Saturday, triggering several explosions at the facility, which plays a key part in Cuba’s electric system.

    Lightning strike? Climate change must be at fault.

    • Animal

      I think the price is about $248 too high.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      That’s an abomination. Zhukov must be rolling in his grave.

    • Sean

      Dude.

    • Rat on a train

      Needs a forward pistol grip.

    • EvilSheldon

      Ugh.

    • Zwak. And once again, the mall is his Waterloo

      What do they think that thing is, a 1022?

    • mock-star

      Its custom built!

  15. DEG

    GunBroker WTF Moment Part Two.

    That’s a Royal Irish Constabulary carbine. Unmolested and in good condition they sell for $1500 to $2000.

    • R C Dean

      1900 dated marked LEC I. Finish well worn with some pitting, missing bolt cover, magazine, and mag cut off. Wood cut down, but does have some silver coins imbedded.

      *shakes head, closes tab*

    • EvilSheldon

      Why?

      • Tonio

        Wall-banger?

      • EvilSheldon

        Greatest. Freudian. Slip. EVER.

      • EvilSheldon

        Unless you were thinking of a Harvey Wallbanger?

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Its funny we laugh at this but in 100 years everyone will be looking at your custom AR and thinking “WTF?”.

      • UnCivilServant

        Yeah, we don’t have to wait 100 years in this case.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Nice flutes, bruh.

      • EvilSheldon

        To the extent that it’ll be old, sure. Because it has been incompetently sporterized? I hope not…

      • DEG

        Heh. True.

        I think I should have included a full disclosure.

        The Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) carbines are all conversions. The Brits modified Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield carbines to equip the RIC. Carbines left in the RIC pattern are worth money. This one isn’t. I said, “WTF?” when I saw the pictures.

        I have a RIC carbine in my collection.

        I also have a Lee-Metford Mk II in my collection that was converted for Aussie club shooting. The Australian Rifle Club changed its rules in the 1920s to prohibit use of Long Lees. Rifles had to be SMLE length. Lots of Australians had their Long Lee rifles modified to comply with the new rules. Here’s an example of one.

      • Not Adahn

        Well, they’d have to scrape off the barnacles first.

    • Sean

      That’s money.

    • slumbrew

      That has, uh, been molested.

    • Zwak. And once again, the mall is his Waterloo

      Huh, the rare quarter stock version.

      (my dad had an original one, very nice bit of kit.)

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Seems pretty straightforward to me. They’d rather burn the ship than have it seized.

      • Drake

        I didn’t realize that they had gone that deep onto cheat mode in Maricopa County.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        They can’t coordinate voter fraud that well across multiple counties so they concentrate on specific blue strongholds.

        There’s potentially a lot of people who could get SPMITA prison time. I would expect them to fight tooth and nail to keep that from happening.

      • Gender Traitor

        SPMITA??? DDG doesn’t even find that.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        special pound-me-in-the-ass?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        👆

      • EvilSheldon

        State PMITAP, as opposed to Federal PMITAP?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Serious Pound Me In The Ass Prison /hattip Office Space

      • Gender Traitor

        I am clearly much too innocent. Those who have met me in person will find that hard to believe.

      • Grosspatzer

        Heh. I originally read that as “those who have met me in prison”. Phew, that was close.

      • Pat

        Heh. I originally read that as “those who have met me in prison”.

        Same.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I couldn’t come up with State….but it’s State. I almost put special. And thanks pat for putting up the cultural reference above

    • JasonAZ

      “What happens if Kari Lake and Mark Finchem and Abraham Hamadeh get elected and start investigations of the 2020 election results?”

      This absolutely is going to happen here in AZ. If needs to happen everywhere. The lack of transparency in our elections right now is frightening. Dems are cheering it because TDS, but that is short-sighted. The fact they turn around and claim Trump and others are the threat to our Democracy, is both ignorant and hypocritical. When progressives push “ends justify the means” actions, there is no legitimate excuse. They’ve lost the argument already.

      • Pat

        Dems are cheering it because TDS, but that is short-sighted.

        Eh, not really. The unique thing about election fixing is that your opponents generally won’t get the chance to turn the tables on you, on account of they’ll never win an election again as long as the fixers are the ones counting the votes.

      • JasonAZ

        Correction: Not Dem pols, but citizen Dems that should know better but their terminal case of TDS over-rides their better judgement. I know Dem friends that genuinely believe that elections should have integrity and transparency; but they will not favor any questions about 2020 elections because Orange Man Bad.

      • Pat

        Ah, yes, that does make sense.

      • Zwak. And once again, the mall is his Waterloo

        Trump represented the complete failure of the Dem worldview, and thus they will excuse anything to make it never have happened.

    • Gustave Lytton

      From the same person, https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/the-treachery-of-vp-mike-pence-explained

      I didn’t know or remember that Pence’s first chief of staff is married to a FBI staffer who worked for Peter Strzok. The blurb calls her an assistant, which sounds like a secretary. When she was or maybe still is a counterintelligence analyst. Funny how an Indians rep’s aide hooks up with someone like that.

  16. Pat

    Study: States legalizing pot saw big drop in synthetic cannabinoid poisonings

    Aug. 9 (UPI) — A new study reports a 37% drop in poisoning reports for dangerous, illegal synthetic cannabinoids in states that have legalized cannabis, as compared to states with restrictive marijuana policies.

    “This study shows some potential public health benefits to the legalization and regulation of adult use of cannabis,” the study’s lead author Tracy Klein, associate professor of nursing at Washington State University, said in a news release.

    How unexpected. In related news, incidents of methanol-induced blindness have fallen sharply since 1933.

    • Sensei

      No way…

    • Grosspatzer

      This is a travesty. People who engage in immoral behavior deserve to suffer the consequences. Legalizing drugs and alcohol reduces those consequences. We must find new and better ways to punish the unrepentant!

      • R.J.

        A perfect spot-on Karen impersonation.

  17. Pat

    They’ve got him this time for sure

    Washington — A federal appeals court in Washington ruled Tuesday that the House Ways and Means Committee can obtain several years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns, a victory for House Democrats in their yearslong battle to obtain the records.

    The unanimous three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with the House Democrats, who initially sought five years of federal income tax returns from Trump and several of his business entities in 2019 while he was president.

    Citing a renewed request for the tax information in 2021 from Rep. Richard Neal, chairman of the Ways and Means panel, after the change in presidential administrations, Senior Circuit Judge David Sentelle wrote in a 33-page ruling that the request “was made in furtherance of a subject upon which legislation could be had,” and rejected claims from the former president that Democrats’ request for his tax information was unconstitutional.

    • R C Dean

      was made in furtherance of a subject upon which legislation could be had

      So basically Congress can subpoena anything and everything it cares to get its hand on, posture about, and leak.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Pretty much. Just like they can force private citizens to appear in their sham hearings.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Or taking the discovery from a civil suit and turning it over to a congressional committee.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Now that one is going to backfire on them.

      • Rat on a train

        Who needs the FBI to go fishing. They have to pretend to have probable cause of a crime. Congress just needs interest.

    • MikeS

      “The chairman has identified a legitimate legislative purpose that it requires information to accomplish. At this stage, it is not our place to delve deeper than this,” Sentelle wrote. “The mere fact that individual members of Congress may have political motivations as well as legislative ones is of no moment.”

      FYTW

  18. Tundra

    Thanks for the lynx, MS!

    The state and federal prosecutor’s offices have opened investigations to determine those responsible for the accident. Such small mines are often the result of locals who get concessions and then contract teams of miners. Experts say they seldom have the safety plans and equipment necessary to reduce the risk of accidents.

    Those miners are dead. I can’t even imagine how scary that would be.

    “If I wanted to pull off a coup I wouldn’t say anything.”

    Yes, you would.

    Carrión said he and his colleagues believe they have learned an important lesson through the reintroduction of the land iguanas: if you remove the source of the ecological disturbance (the invasive species in this case), the ecosystem can recover and return to its natural dynamic.

    You don’t say. And here I thought sciencing was hard!

  19. KK the Ignorant Slut

    How can Cuba’s electrical grid be fragile? It’s a commie paradise where everything is awesome 100% of the time!!

  20. Shpip

    Apologies if drugs, arse, etc., but I saw a trio of bad ideas coming (unsurprisingly) out of Hollywood.

    Bad Idea One: They’re remaking the goofy outrage / revenge classic Road House.

    Bad Idea Two: Jake Gyllenhaal is cast to play the Patrick Swayze role.

    Bad Idea Three: UFC fighter Conor McGregor is set to make his acting debut in the film. Seriously, the guy takes the actor’s adage “break a leg” way too seriously.

    My opinion is if you’re going to remake a cultural icon, why not go full woke? I’d cast Bree Larson in the Sam Elliott role, and have Ellen Elliot Page as the ER doc previously played by Kelly Lynch. Think of the groundbreaking sex scenes! Trans acceptance FTW!

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Why are you giving them ideas? They don’t need your help.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Season two subplot of Only Murders…

      • slumbrew

        “The role played by Cara Delevingne has been replace with a piece of wood”

      • TARDis

        An improvement, to be for sure. She’s overrated in every sense.

      • slumbrew

        She’s a terrible actress. Zero chemistry with her and the supposed love interest (avoiding spoilers).

    • slumbrew

      Looking forward to the clips of McGregor saying “I used to fuck guys like you in prison”.

      • Shpip

        That’s exactly the role I was envisioning for him.

        Or maybe bringing back this epic line.

    • Ted S.

      Bad Idea One: They’re remaking the goofy outrage / revenge classic Road House.

      Ida Lupino would like a word with you.

    • Zwak. And once again, the mall is his Waterloo

      Change Bree Larson to Bree Olson and you got a movie!

  21. grrizzly

    Shocking
    Truck driver acquitted in deaths of 7 motorcyclists in New Hampshire in 2019

    A jury on Tuesday acquitted a commercial truck driver of causing the deaths of seven motorcyclists in a horrific head-on collision in northern New Hampshire that exposed fatal flaws in the processing of license revocations across states.

    Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 26, of West Springfield, Massachusetts, was found innocent on seven counts of manslaughter, seven counts of negligent homicide and one count of reckless conduct in connection with the June 21, 2019, crash in Randolph. Jailed since the crash, he appeared to wipe away tears as the verdict was read and briefly raised his index finger skyward before leaving the courtroom.

    Jurors deliberated for less than three hours after a two-week trial during which prosecutors argued that Zhukovskyy, who had taken heroin, fentanyl and cocaine that day, repeatedly swerved back and forth before the head-on crash and told police he caused it. But a judge dismissed eight charges related to whether he was impaired, and his attorneys blamed the lead biker, Albert “Woody” Mazza, who was among those killed.

    The Ukrainian privilege.

    • grrizzly

      A question to DEG: why is everyone wearing a mask in court? What’s wrong with NH?

      • Pat

        Free State Project working like a charm…

      • robc

        They should have chose Wyoming.

      • DEG

        I used to shit on the FSP, but I’ve seen the progress they’ve made. I don’t anymore.

        Sometimes they are their own worst enemy, but they have changed some stuff around here for the better. See the last budget which cut spending, eliminated government jobs, and cut taxes.

      • Pat

        I was just being a wise ass. From what I understand, they’ve actually succeeded in getting a fair number of their people elected locally and gotten at least a few things done politically.

      • DEG

        What you’re saying is, is I need to fix my sarcasm detector?

        #cathynewmanquestions

        On a serious note, the House Majority Leader is a Free Stater. That was a big deal.

      • DEG

        I haven’t followed the case. I know nothing about any specifics about the case.

        During the masking insanity, the NH Supreme Court made about rules masking, access to the courts, and other Lil Rona “stuff” for the NH state courts. The NH Supreme Court makes rules for NH state courts subject to Legislative oversight. The Governor has no official say in the matter.

        During the insanity, the NH Supreme Court required masking in all NH state courts.

        Masking is currently not required by the NH Supreme Court. It’s possible the judge required it. Judges have a lot of leeway in running their courtrooms. Or, possible every person voluntarily wore a mask. I have no idea.

      • DEG

        Wow. I actually proofread that comment.

        “the NH Supreme Court made about rules masking” should be “the NH Supreme Court made rules about masking”

      • grrizzly

        It was probably the judge. People in the audience starting removing their masks as soon as the verdict was announced.

    • Count Potato

      “who had taken heroin, fentanyl and cocaine that day, repeatedly swerved back and forth before the head-on crash and told police he caused it. But a judge dismissed eight charges related to whether he was impaired”

      But if his BAC was .16% he would have fucked.

      • Grosspatzer

        But if his BAC was .16% he would have fucked.

        -1 Whiskey dick.

    • DEG

      I don’t like InDepthNH, but their coverage has a few more details.

      Putting the two stories together, his acquittal isn’t that surprising.

      • grrizzly

        Thanks for the link. This gives a more detailed picture. The impression I had in 2019 was that the truck driver had zero chance to be acquitted.

      • DEG

        You’re welcome!

  22. Gustave Lytton

    Once again, amazing how the FBI has failed to make any progress in unmasking the funding, supporting, or doxing arms of antifa… so telling. Not that I would expect any. Just like Epstein and Maxwell are the only ones charged in a heinous sex ring with no other participants.

    Also funny, watching the puppets on Fox express outrage at the FBI. As if J Edgar, Cointelpro, etc etc, never happened.

    • Gustave Lytton

      So close… Jesse Waters is saying there’s an in group of elites who will be protected by the deep state and anyone outside of that will get thrashed. And then goes on to say that if the Republicans take party in November, they need to clean house. Hey dumbass, the Republicans are just as much part of that protected in group.

      • Pat

        Republicans are just as much part of that protected in group.

        The ratio of D to R in that group is probably 10:1 though. Republicans of the Rockefeller variety that attended the right schools in the northeast can still be part of the club if they behave themselves.

  23. Shpip

    A deadly fire that began at a large oil storage facility in western Cuba spread on Monday, threatening to plunge the island into a deeper energy crisis as it forced officials to shut down a key thermoelectric plant.

    Cynical me said to myself, “Cuba should’ve gotten some nuke plants from the USSR back when they were a Soviet puppet ally.

    Turns out, they had. But it’s been mothballed for thirty years. I guess it turns out that bragging about your 99% literacy rate and esteemed medical corps doesn’t translate into engineering knowledge or maintaining expensive infrastructure.

  24. KK the Ignorant Slut

    Yeah that lightning strike was no more than 100 yards away.

    That’s 54 Smoots.

    • robc

      You win a nobel prize and your brother is more famous.

      • robc

        Not his brother, it was a “distant relative” according to wikipedia. Huh.

    • Gustave Lytton

      A standard that later headed both ANSI and ISO. Whoa.

      • slumbrew

        Yeah, his roles w/ ANSI and ISO are just too perfect. Nobody would believe that if you wrote it in a piece of fiction.

        I love it.

      • rhywun

        Had to look all of this up.

        Ha!

      • Ted S.

        Yeah; I was thinking of cornerback Fred Smoot.

    • juris imprudent

      We may have fried a TV or maybe just the sat receiver.

  25. rhywun

    Where are those “isolated thunderstorms” already? Still 97º.

    *taps foot*

    • Ownbestenemy

      Same here…they are dancing around me…looks like Hayek and Pat? Are getting it good and hard though

      • Pat

        I’ve had 3 HOLY SHIT! FLASH FLOODING! ALL HOPE IS LOST! YOU WILL SURELY DIE!!!!!!!!!!! notifications on my phone in the last couple hours, but haven’t seen a drop of rain yet in my part of town yet. On the other hand, the wind is blowing so much dust into the air it looks like London fog.

      • Ted S.

        Q: Did you hear about the man who went for a walk in the London fog and was never seen again?
        A: He disappeared into thick air.

      • Pat

        I hate myself for chuckling at that.

      • Nephilium

        The storms have finally blown past us up here. A week of thunderstorms/rainstorms and high 80’s. Finally back into the 70’s with clear skies predicted until next week. Got in a ride tonight, and planning on at least another two before next week.

      • rhywun

        We haven’t had more than a couple instances of pissy rain over the last week of heat wave. Even tonight only a 50% chance but the heat is supposed to drop to the mid-80s tomorrow so who knows, we’ll see.

        Over this summer.

    • Grosspatzer

      ISOLATED thunderstorms. Must be NYC Covid restrictions.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Nukem?

      Really?

      • Pat

        Hail to the king, baby!

      • Grosspatzer

        He’s king now? Long line of succession from Duke.

      • Gustave Lytton

        If they were a subsidiary of Butler Brothers, I’d buy that for a dollar.

  26. Tundra

    I love Scott Horton, but interviewing him must be exhausting.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The guy vomits information at a rate of speed that is impossible to keep up with.

      • Tundra

        Dave: “I’m an idiot and I’m smarter than all of these people.”

        Truth.

  27. whiz

    This is the last time, I promise.

    Only 3 days left in the Gannett Challenge for my wife’s nonprofit Home Allies. We were in the top 20 each of the first three weeks (out of about 440 nonprofits nationwide). This is the last week. If you were at all inclined to help but haven’t yet, here is the link. This week the bonus challenge is for total dollars raised (last week was number of donors), and the deadline is 8 PM CDT Friday. Even if we don’t win a bonus grant, a good showing will help us qualify to be in the running for the larger grants (up to $100,000).

    Thank you again for those of you who already donated — it is greatly appreciated.* When this is all done, I will send those who donated an update.

    *Even the person who donated in the named of Winston’s Mom, although I then had to explain (although not completely) what that was about.

    • Rat on a train

      pure grain alcohol?

    • Pat

      How will I maintain my purity of essence?

      The pure grain alcohol and distilled water is still safe, right?

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Dihydrogen monoxide is a major killer.

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s right up there with hydrogen hydroxide.

      • Rat on a train

        oxidane you hicks

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’ll start worrying about that when they stop trying to inject me with a carcinogenic agent that also causes strokes and heart inflammation.

    • Not Adahn

      forever chemicals

      DeBeers expanded into chemical manufacturing.

      • Zwak. And once again, the mall is his Waterloo

        And Dupont moves into Diamond mining.

  28. Mustang

    My electric bill went up 98% since last month.

    This is fine.

    • R.J.

      Try harder! Anything effort less than 100% is too low!

      • Mustang

        I’ve unplugged everything not being used daily and the thermostat hasn’t changed in months. I’m the only person in the house. My wife and kid moved to our new house months ago, yet my most recent bill is more than when they were here.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Welcome to the future

      • R.J.

        That is so horrible.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Does it show actual kilowatt usage?

    • Count Potato

      Yikes!!!

  29. Count Potato

    “EXCLUSIVE: Locked and loaded: Palm Beach police have received intelligence warning that armed pro-Trump protesters are planning to descend on Mar-a-Lago following FBI raid”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11096513/Palm-Beach-police-expecting-armed-pro-Trump-protesters-descend-Mar-Lago-raid.html

    “‘Biden KNEW… just like he knew all about Hunter’s “deals”‘: Trump claims president was aware of Mar-a-Lago raid and calls it a coordinated attack by ‘Radical Left Democrat AGs’ – as pressure piles on DOJ to react”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11096835/Trump-claims-Biden-aware-Mar-Lago-raid.html

    Anything to distract from the economy. Get caught with a your dick in an intern? Blow up an aspirin factory.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Received intelligence warnings from the same FBI bringing ARs to “secure” the location?

      If Biden knew, that would be one of the few things he does besides what time his next meal is.

    • rhywun

      armed pro-Trump protesters are planning to descend on Mar-a-Lago following FBI raid

      I hope they remember to change out of their khakis and sunglasses this time.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        👆

        It doesn’t even make sense.

      • Rebel Scum

        “Hello fellow Trumpites.”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      And what would armed protesters do at MAL?

      What would the point of that be?

      It would be more productive if they showed up at the local FBI field office and took pictures.

      • R.J.

        If you are in Florida, chances are you are armed anyway. So they are just “protestors.” And even then, if they support Trump, aren’t they supporters, not protestors?

      • UnCivilServant

        Pictures? What good would that do. Anyone working for the FBI is clearly an insurrectionist and needs to be brought to justice.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      It wasn’t a raid. It was a search. With guns.

    • Pat

      I miss the good old days when our incompetent federal government just shot down commercial airliners and burned the children of religious fundies to death for fun.

    • rhywun

      🙄

    • JasonAZ

      Gotta get those ballots mailed out to the dead people, so our overlords can fortify the election again.

      Step 1, have the Chinese comrades deploy the latest manufactured virus.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Out of fucking control

    • Tundra

      Is there a cell phone nuke app? It would be nice to be able to destroy everything as you are handing it to the nazis.

      • UnCivilServant

        Samsung did a test run, but it kept going off early.

        Or did you mean just nuking the data?

      • Tundra

        I would love to hand the assholes a brick. Even better would be a phone that bricks a couple minutes after you give it up.

      • Pat

        Wasted or InTheClear do exactly what you’re describing. You should have your phone encrypted with a decent password, of course.

      • Count Potato

        You could just smash it like Tom Brady.

  30. Pat

    Corporate America’s war on the unwoke

    Last week, California governor Gavin Newsom called on Hollywood to support California’s so-called liberal values by shutting down its film and television activities in conservative states, such as Georgia and Oklahoma. In a page-long ad in Variety, entitled ‘Hollywood: Your Values, Your Choice’, Newsom asked Hollywood higher-ups to ‘take stock of your values – and those of your employees – when doing business in those states’, particularly when it comes to questions of ‘reproductive freedom’ and ‘LGBTQ’ rights.

    […]

    This use of economic force to achieve political objectives is actively supported by the leaders of corporate America. In April 2021, more than 120 CEOs, business leaders, lawyers and experts gathered for a Zoom meeting to discuss and organise a campaign to defeat ‘Republican-led efforts to restrict access to the ballot box’. They discussed plans to refuse to move businesses and jobs to states that passed Republican voting laws. Those involved claimed they were trying to ensure the future of democracy. And they were soon joined by hundreds of other leading companies, law firms and foundations, including all the usual suspects from Amazon to BlackRock and Google.

    Even at the best of times, big business is no friend of democracy. But today it is exerting considerable influence over political life. Major corporations and their CEOs are effectively insisting that their worldview, rather than that of elected politicians, should prevail. And Democratic politicians are egging them on.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Go ahead, skewer yourself

      Double, triple, quadruple down, let’s just get this over with

    • R.J.

      Please do get your wretched, diseased Hollywood machine out of everywhere except California. Allow independent film to flourish. Go be spoil California into an incestual clown show we can all laugh at again. Meanwhile, just about anyone makes a better film than California film mafia.

    • rhywun

      big business is no friend of democracy

      No, but it’s a huge fan of lower costs. Why the fuck does he think Hollywood films in places like Georgia anyway?

      This is all a bunch of hot air meant to signal to the elites that they are correctthinkers.

      • juris imprudent

        hey Gavin, you gonna dole out some sweet film subsidies like those states?

    • rhywun

      The droog on the right looks like a brawler I would cross the street to avoid.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That may be one of the most Russian things I’ve ever seen

      • KK the Ignorant Slut

        I wonder how much vodka they had beforehand?

  31. kinnath

    I’ve lost count of the number of times that I thought “I never thought I would live to see the day when . . . . . “.

    The only thing left is world war three with China or Russia or both.

    • Tundra

      I thought Russia first, but now I’m not so sure.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I seem to recall saying on 9/11 “we are so fucked.” Not because of bin Laden, but because of the blank check the American people would hand to the government because of him.

      • rhywun

        You were right.

      • Urthona

        Why would we fight those countries? We are ideologically the same as them.

      • Penguin

        We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.